My family is not a religious family...we are very, very secular. One day our doorbell rang on a Sunday morning, about 45 minutes before a local church was about to be begin. It was the pastor of the church (mind you, he has no education in this stuff, he just decided to rent space in a public building and say it was his church) and he wanted us to know that God hold told him that he was to invite us to church that day and he really hoped we'd go. Yeah. We smiled and politely told him we had other plans. The next week he stopped by because God had told him to bring us some bread. The week after that he called because God told him to ask us for money so he could go on a mission trip. The next week God told him the ask us for a donation so he could buy some land and a building for his church. His number is in my phone's address book so I won't answer it if he calls and I no longer answer my door on Sunday mornings without first creeping to a window to see who it is!

I had a patient once tell me that something bad was going to happen to someone who had wronged him. I jumped in and said, "I want to make sure you know that if you tell me you are going to hurt this guy, I need to call the police." He said, "It's not me." I said, "If you tell me a friend will hurt him, I need to call the police." He pointed up and said, "GOD is going to punish him!" I decided the state police had no jurisdiction over God.

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